Planes overhead in OL7
Tameside, Greater Manchester. All 412 of its postcodes measured (9 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From Manchester
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Manchester flies, and that decides how many pass over OL7. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 70% of days
Up to 18
a day
Of its 412 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 17
- under 10
- 395
On a day it flies both ways, 10% of days
Up to 12
a day
Of its 412 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 2
- under 10
- 410
On a day it flies east, 20% of days
Up to 5
a day
Of its 412 postcodes:
- under 10
- 412
Each sector's bar splits its postcodes by how many planes pass over them a day; the figure above it counts those in the busiest band the sector reaches. The list above gives the whole district's counts.
| Sector | Flying west70% of days | Both ways10% of days | Flying east20% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| OL7 0189 postcodes | 189 under 10 | 189 under 10 | 189 under 10 |
| OL7 9223 postcodes | 17 at 10 to 99 | 2 at 10 to 99 | 223 under 10 |
What counts as overhead
Overhead means more than halfway up the sky (48.5 degrees or more) and below 7,000 ft, the CAA's definition of an overflight (CAP 1498). A day counts as one way when 80% of its flights used that way. PO boxes and other postcodes for organisations that receive a lot of post are left out: they sit at a delivery office or a business, not at homes.
Near OL7
OL6 SK16 M34 OL8 SK15 OL5 SK14 M40
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Manchester. Flight tracks: adsb.lol (ODbL 1.0); Weather at each airport: Iowa Environmental Mesonet; Ground heights: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right; Postcode positions: ONS National Statistics Postcode Lookup (OGL). Licence: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0.